Is a small group really going to control AI systems or will competition bring the price down so much that everyone benefits and the unit cost of labor is further and further reduced.
1) all work gets done by AI. Owners of AI reap the benefits for a while.
There is a race to the bottom concerning costs, but also because people are not earning wages and come ang really afford the outputs of production. Thus rendering profits close to zero. If the people controlling the systems do not give the people "on the bottom" some kind allowance they will not have any chance for income. They might ask horrible and sadistic things from the bottom people but they will need to do something.
2) if people get pushed into these situations they will get riot or start civil wars. "Butlerian jihads" will be quite normal.
3) another scenario is that the society controlled by the rich will start to criminalise non-work in the early stages, that will lead to a new slave class. I find this scenario highly likely.
4) one of the options that I find very likely if "useless" people do NOT get "culled" en mass is an initial period of Revolt followed an AI controlled communist "Utopia". Where people do not need to work but "own" the means of production (AI workers). Nobody needs to work. Work is LARPing and is done by people who act like workers but don't really do anything (like some people do today) A lot of people don't do this, there are still people who see non-workers as leeching of the workers, because workers are "rewarded" by ingame mechanics (having a "better job").
Parallel societies will become normal. Just like now. Rich people will give themselves "better jobs" some people dont play the game and there are no real consequences, but not being allowed to play.
5) an amalgamation of the scenario as above, but in this scenario everybody will be forced to larp with the asset owning class. They will give people "jobs" but these jobs are bullshit. Just like many jobs right now. Jobs are just a way of creating different social classes. There is no meritocracy. Just rituals. Some people get to do certain rituals that give them more social status and wealth. This is based on oligarch whims. Once in a while a revolt, but mostly not needed.
Or, don’t… we need less mark fischers and critical thinking in the world and more constructive thinking.
It helps no one to explain to them just how much the boot stomps on their face. Left wing post modernist intellectuals have been doing this since the 60s and all it did was prevent any left winger from doing anything “revolutionary”.
Don’t waste your time reading “theory”. Look at what happened to Mark Fischer.
